"The test of a first rate intelligence is the
ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still
retain the ability to function." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Unfortunately, understanding and managing the
temporal aperture surround can be an intellectual exercise - no free
passes. Any detailed study of consciousness requires
the broadest knowledge background one can collect together. For
example, there is a large collection of
papers and discussion here
having to do with Western philosophy topics.
Those papers substantially depend on complex verbal forms, precise
definition, and accurate deductive syllogisms. Years of academic
study are required to fully appreciate much of that discussion.

However,
it is proposed that intense attachment to verbal means comprises an
awareness jail and filter, whatever it's strong precision and rigor. For
purposes here, we'd like to manage a mix of logic and art qualitatively with the help of intuition and
imagination, especially since there are transcendent potentials where
verbal description is inadequate.

Consciousness and awareness expansion inevitably will generate many questions that cannot be answered with words or
everyday logic. These may be natural kōans ("ko-ahnz").
One doesn't necessarily need to
go to a Zen monastery to practice with kōans. Here are short kōan
definitions from Internet resources:

"A
puzzling, often paradoxical statement or story, used in Zen Buddhism as
an aid to meditation and a means of gaining spiritual awakening."

"A
paradoxical anecdote or a riddle that has no solution; used in Zen
Buddhism to show the inadequacy of logical reasoning."

"A
Zen teaching riddle. Classically, kōans are attractive paradoxes
to be meditated on; their purpose is to
help one to enlightenment by temporarily jamming normal cognitive
processing so that something more interesting can happen (this practice
is associated with Rinzei Zen Buddhism). Hackers are very
fond of the koan form and compose their own kōans for humorous
and/or enlightening effect."

See
the Wikipedia for a longer kōan
article with examples. You can do a search for kōan in
any search engine, physical library, or book store.

Kōan
exercises strive to reduce your attachment to logical reasoning, which
with its dependence on words and concepts is a filter. For a larger
temporal aperture, one needs to soft pedal this dependence and
recognize it as merely one tool among many for knowing and learning. To
have a larger temporal aperture, one must shed every filter that you can
possibly define, manage, and stand to do without.

The classic familiar kōan,
"Two hands clap and there is a sound. What is the sound of one
hand?" is functionally similar to the conundrums you face in
contemplating yourself as having an extraordinary temporal aperture. For
instance, if one's temporal aperture were comprehensive enough to include exact
knowledge of the future 20 minutes from now, how would one integrate
that knowledge within the present moment? Could one continuously keep
that knowledge a secret? The
answer to this question must be non-verbal and circumnavigate ordinary
logic. This may be a kōan.

Much temporal aperture
expansion naturally takes place as one learns and gain experience
every day. However, a 3-dimensional conceptual framework is
ultimately a limiting filter despite all the powers it appears to render.

Knowledge
beyond ordinary knowledge boundaries is called esoteric
knowledge. If a person had an extraordinary temporal aperture, they
will embrace esoteric knowledge that is typically hidden from everyone
else.